Re: [tied] Re: PIE *y > Gr ?

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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 12:46 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: PIE *y > Gr ?


> ... we'd really need some concrete evidence to back up either
> possibility. I wonder if there's still any merit in one old etymology of
> <huakintHos>, comparing it with *h2ju-Hn.-k^�- (yuvas'�-, iuvencus,
young),
> with a substratoid suffix. It doesn't seem to be a bad equation to me, and
I
> see nothing embarrassing in connecting it with the myth of Hyacinthus.

I forgot to mention the idea that Gk. hugie:s < *h2ju-gWih3-�:s.

Piotr